412 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



which Liturgy, in conjunction with Mr. Oster- 

 wald. Dr. Jablouski had been very instrumen- 

 tal. In the meantime this order from his Prus- 

 sian Majesty, and the judgments of his divines 

 upon it seemed to make it a very proper season 

 once more to move the affair of introducing the 

 English Liturgy. And the rather, because my 

 Lord Raby having obtained a particular interest 

 in the King and his ministers, it was thought, 

 that if he was commanded to recommend this 



upon the present subject, but also on account of the scarcity of 

 the impressions of the Neufchatel Liturgy, to which it is pre- 

 fixed in the Enghsli edition. Justice is likewise done hereby to 

 the worthy author, in the correction of a mistake in the trans- 

 lation, whereby the sentiments of the learned doctor concerning 

 the Church of England are very much misrepresented. For 

 whereas the doctor set out with an observation, dass manche 

 evangelische geme'mem, i. e. that several evangelical congrega- 

 tions (meaning thereby the Lutherans and Calvinists in Prussia, 

 Poland, Bohemia, &c.) have fallen from one extreme, that of 

 the Romish idolatrous worship, to that other of a frigid, super- 

 ficial, and not enough respectful way of worship : his translator 

 not being apprised that Evglische was an abbreviation of Evan- 

 gelische, read it with a small difference, EngUsche gemeinem ; 

 which he rendered English congregations. Those, it seems, 

 were not in the doctor's thoughts when he made this reflection, 

 as appears by his own words, wrote shortly after to the trans- 

 lator, wherein he gives this very account of the mistake, and 

 adds, " Quod si tu ipse mihi non vertisti vitio quod mare 

 transvolans Anglos ad me nihil hie pertinentes lacessiverim, 

 salteni si ab aliis id fieri audiveris, me quseso excusa." 1 7th 

 Dec. N. S. 171S. 



